by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
On Sighting a Truck Named after a Planet The van at the end of my road has a name: Saturn Removals. I like the sound of that. No fancy intros. The driver steps out, straight down to business. He’s bigger than I expect and the ice-rings that circle...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2021 | Featured, News, Poetry
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Roger Robinson, Anna Saunders and Sarah Westcott on Sunday 18th July at 4pm GMT. This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Tearing i.m. Rose Strowman what a thrill for a kid running up the staircase he’s climbed a thousand times before and seeing the wardrobe for the first time not as a boring white object but as a newfound treasure trove because this...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Our Bedroom There in the bed, like dirt or blood, someone else lay, not sure who. They smelt like apricot and drove us wild. We all twisted in the duvet and rolled up tight like a burrito. Sweating and swearing, knotted up all angry-like, dirty white...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Alternates after Pessoa Do you remember that film where there are multiple suns, or was it moons, or both; and that other film where the guy can’t escape this one day, waking up to the same song, same radio news, I would have been like ‘oh,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Proofreading the Motorbike Manual I’m struggling to understand the meaning of float pivot pin, centrifugal filter, whether values or valves fits the context, when there’s the familiar sound of your impromptu knock and running to open the door...
